Early Childhood
Development Index (ECDI)
ECDI
Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI)
Model Coefficients Summary
| (Intercept) |
40.1384058 |
5.7872045 |
6.9357158 |
6.00e-07 |
| child_age_months |
0.6321739 |
0.1205624 |
5.2435412 |
2.93e-05 |
| R-squared |
0.5555082 |
NA |
0.5555082 |
NA |
- Early childhood develpoment index (ECDI) is the percentage of
children who are are developmentally on track in at least three of the
following four domains: literacy-numeracy, physical, social-emotional,
and learning (MICS indicator definition). This chart shows the ECDI by
child’s age in months (blue bars), along with the line of best fit. The
summary statistics are presented in the table below.
- The gradient of the line of best fit is positive, which indicates a
positive relationship whereby as a child’s age increases, ECDI
increases. Specifically, for each additional month a child has, ECDI is
expected to increase by approximately 0.63 percentage points.
- The p-value for this gradient is less than 0.05, indicating a
statistically significant relationship and that the observed results are
unlikely due to random chance.
- This is important to know because if a child is getting older, but
their not on track in their development, there should be some
intervention put in place to ensure the child is learning and thriving,
and reaching their potential.
Domains
Educational domains that contribute to ECDI
Model Coefficients Summary by Group
| Learning |
73.27971 |
0.3713043 |
5.324474 |
0.1109225 |
13.762806 |
3.3474202 |
0.0e+00 |
0.0029145 |
| Literacy and math |
-25.58261 |
0.7517391 |
4.381037 |
0.0912683 |
-5.839396 |
8.2365855 |
7.1e-06 |
0.0000000 |
| Physical |
92.54275 |
0.0526087 |
3.693321 |
0.0769414 |
25.056784 |
0.6837501 |
0.0e+00 |
0.5012720 |
| Socio-emotional |
62.87246 |
0.2939130 |
4.048757 |
0.0843461 |
15.528830 |
3.4846090 |
0.0e+00 |
0.0021002 |
- This chart shows the four educational domains that contribute to the
ECDI, by child’s age in months, along with the line of best fit. The
summary statistics are presented in the table below.
- The literacy and math domain had the strongest positive relationship
with literacy and math development, increasing 0.75 percentage points
per month increase in childs. This was statistically signficant
(p<0.05), indicating that as a child’s age increases, literacy and
math skills increase the most of the four domains.
- Learning and socio-emotional domains also had significant positive
relationships with child age in months, albeit weaker
relationships.
- There was no statistically significant association found between
childs age in months and physical development (p=0.5).
- Despite these observations, physical development was considerably
higher throughout 36-59 months than literacy and math indicating that
children generally develop physical skills at a younger age.
- It is important to note that there are some variations in
development indicator percentage, likely due to small sample sizes when
breaking the average down by month of age. As such, results may be
subject to noise and should be interpreted with this in mind.